How can I make the bridal shower all about the bride?

[beckysuem]

I had a mother of the bride ask me how I make sure that the shower is all about the bride. That got me thinking....

I have the bride do all the cooking and I get her an apron for everyone to sign. Do you talk about the business opportunity at all? Do you talk about your own story and how you started selling? Do you talk much about hosting a show?

I'm almost positive I'll be doing a show for this bride and now I want to make sure to take all the focus off myself and on the bride. Thoughts?

 

[wadesgirl]

I have the bride and bridal party make the recipe! It's always a blast. I do still share my intro story and talk about recruiting and booking (booking off the party helps the bride!). I try to share things that they use that is on the bride's wish list.

 

[NooraK]

Rae makes a Batter Bowl Bride cake using a doll pick with the same color hair as her bride, and a ribbon in the bride's wedding colors.

 

[raebates]

Yes, I do. Be warned, however, that they do not make red-headed doll picks. You can't dye doll hair, but you can carefully color it with a Sharpie.

 

[Sheila]

Yes, I do. Be warned, however, that they do not make red-headed doll picks. You can't dye doll hair, but you can carefully color it with a Sharpie.

I can see you trying to use a sharpie to color every strand of hair on the dolls!

 

[mmilus]

I did a shower last May - it was given by the groom's mother and most of the guests were the grooms family. Both the bride and groom were there and they did the actual cooking. I prepared envelopes ahead of time numbered 1-16 (or thereabouts). Each guest wound up gettting two envelopes. In each envelope was a step for making chicken fajitas in the DCB. When it was their turn, the guest told the couple what to do and then told something about them that they wanted the bride to know or something about the groom or anything they wanted to share. I talked very briefly about myself at the beginning and about the tools they used in the different steps but kept the focus on the couple. This worked really well - everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and party sales were over $1000.

I also had the bride give me a wish list ahead of time. I printed two pictures of each item with it's cost and number on cardstock, cut them apart and glued them on either side of a popsicle-type stick. These were then stuck in a styrofoam base that could be decorated in the wedding colors. The guests could then select which items they wanted to purchase for the bride and take that out of the display which made keeping track of what had been purchased very easy.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.
Marci